Peter de Bode
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You can't kill a dead man twice
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It’s interesting how the risk awareness that dependence on US systems - be it in digital services, defence, or payment methods - has been internalised fairly quickly in Europe.
National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives
National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives
Riksbankschef Erik Thedéen: Sverige för beroende av amerikanska kreditkortsföretag - Ekot
Riksbankschef Erik Thedéen anser att Sveriges betalsystem är för beroende av amerikanska kreditkortsföretag som Mastercard och Visa.I nuläget tycker Erik ...
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December 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Opinion | Climate Goals Are Becoming More Realistic. That’s Good News.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Yes, Victor, like Jenkins, has been funded by oil and gas — and maybe still is, I don’t know.
December 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Yes, Victor, like Jenkins, has been funded by oil and gas — and maybe still is, I don’t know.
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People got really mad at me when I called Victor out a few years ago for misrepresenting climate science in his testimony against the youth plaintiffs in the Juliana lawsuit against the US govt for supporting fossil fuels.
Not discussing climate impacts at all is also a form of misrepresentation.
Not discussing climate impacts at all is also a form of misrepresentation.
December 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
People got really mad at me when I called Victor out a few years ago for misrepresenting climate science in his testimony against the youth plaintiffs in the Juliana lawsuit against the US govt for supporting fossil fuels.
Not discussing climate impacts at all is also a form of misrepresentation.
Not discussing climate impacts at all is also a form of misrepresentation.
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What's realistic about keeping coal-generation power plants operating when they are trying to shut them down for economic reasons?
December 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What's realistic about keeping coal-generation power plants operating when they are trying to shut them down for economic reasons?
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Nothing in this David Victor essay indicates that there’s any danger in heating the planet over 2C. Instead, he says that slowing decarbonization is good. 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
Opinion | Climate Goals Are Becoming More Realistic. That’s Good News.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Nothing in this David Victor essay indicates that there’s any danger in heating the planet over 2C. Instead, he says that slowing decarbonization is good. 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
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Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit
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Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
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Spent 6 months in detention waiting on a decision on his asylum application until he was deported to CECOT
The detail that they sent out an asylum seeker who presented himself to immigration correctly also seems new. Again, did we know this? Seems like a weird thing for a terrorist to do
The detail that they sent out an asylum seeker who presented himself to immigration correctly also seems new. Again, did we know this? Seems like a weird thing for a terrorist to do
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Spent 6 months in detention waiting on a decision on his asylum application until he was deported to CECOT
The detail that they sent out an asylum seeker who presented himself to immigration correctly also seems new. Again, did we know this? Seems like a weird thing for a terrorist to do
The detail that they sent out an asylum seeker who presented himself to immigration correctly also seems new. Again, did we know this? Seems like a weird thing for a terrorist to do
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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trump is kind of sui generis and after a decade of his increasingly demented psychosis i can sort of let him wash over me. but seeing a soft, empty 40 year old man who absolutely knows better do or say anything he has to say to get power - including shit on his own kids - is genuinely revolting
December 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
trump is kind of sui generis and after a decade of his increasingly demented psychosis i can sort of let him wash over me. but seeing a soft, empty 40 year old man who absolutely knows better do or say anything he has to say to get power - including shit on his own kids - is genuinely revolting
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Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
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Some ~personal news~
Yes, I'm being sued by Matt Taibbi
Does that make me the realest free speech warrior?
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December 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Some ~personal news~
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Tariffs as a % of GDP are at the highest level in more than 100 years amidst Trump's trade war—even though tariff rates are still lower than in the 1930s, they have a much higher impact because trade volumes are much larger than in the past
December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tariffs as a % of GDP are at the highest level in more than 100 years amidst Trump's trade war—even though tariff rates are still lower than in the 1930s, they have a much higher impact because trade volumes are much larger than in the past
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December 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Added to the Rotterdam culinary landscape 👍
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ProPublica Blows Leonard Leo Story
Afraid to report on Leonard Leo’s rightwing Catholic web and his faith driven politics
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December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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A decade of failing to persuade the New York Times to pay attention to Leonard Leo
First published April 4, 2024 on my Medium page. I’m reprinting my Leonard Leo columns on Substack. As of Sept. 2025 The New York Times has never done a critical look at Leonard Leo.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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1) Naming 🧵 thread of DC Reporting Royalty.
I’d say shaming, but they have no shame.
End of year thread.
Ta-Da - The reporters who helped Leonard Leo give us trump.
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I’d say shaming, but they have no shame.
End of year thread.
Ta-Da - The reporters who helped Leonard Leo give us trump.
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The Silence of the Journos
by Tom Carter
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December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
1) Naming 🧵 thread of DC Reporting Royalty.
I’d say shaming, but they have no shame.
End of year thread.
Ta-Da - The reporters who helped Leonard Leo give us trump.
@davidcorn.bsky.social
@draperrobert.bsky.social
@andykroll.bsky.social
@imillhiser.bsky.social
medium.com/@thcarter123...
I’d say shaming, but they have no shame.
End of year thread.
Ta-Da - The reporters who helped Leonard Leo give us trump.
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@draperrobert.bsky.social
@andykroll.bsky.social
@imillhiser.bsky.social
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The median INS agent did not carry a weapon on their person.
The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun.
They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor
The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun.
They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The median INS agent did not carry a weapon on their person.
The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun.
They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor
The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun.
They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor
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That makes 32 reported deaths in ICE custody since Trump took power again.
Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month.
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Nicaraguan Man in ICE Custody Dies in Mississippi Hospital
A Nicaraguan man has died in ICE custody at a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of a person in custody this month.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
That makes 32 reported deaths in ICE custody since Trump took power again.
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It's quite possible that this is true but I think the pertinent issue which overrides these calculations in a more normal conflict is that Russia, like Israel, has more totalizing and irrational ambitions which involve the liquidation of an entire people and culture. The UK did too, but gave it up.
Ukraine is facing the same choice as Ireland in the 1920s and India in the 1940s. Sovereignty will come at a territorial price. It could de facto concede some, but not do so de jure, then use proxies in occupied to territory to continuously destabilize Russia. Russia's gift horse may become Trojan.
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's quite possible that this is true but I think the pertinent issue which overrides these calculations in a more normal conflict is that Russia, like Israel, has more totalizing and irrational ambitions which involve the liquidation of an entire people and culture. The UK did too, but gave it up.
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I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.